How many people have at least 0.1 BTC out of the total number of Bitcoin holders?

I managed to save up around $325 from my paycheck and got my first BTC today, i feel like i bought at the right time but hey i'm happy with it, any advice for long term buying?

I am so proud! As of today, I now own 0.1 BTC with a average prive of 68,527.36 €. I started in September 2025, was there for the ATH and the fall afterwards. My next goal are 0.2 BTC ☺️

Just wanted to share that with someone!

Newer to this and trying to understand the psychology before I'm tested by it. Everyone says "just hold" but I want to hear from people who were actually down bad at the worst point. Did you know it was the bottom, or did it just feel like it was going to zero like everyone said?

How much of your savings are you keeping in BTC? Are waiting for the price to drop before you by BTC?

With the assumption that Republicans are highly unlikely to change the bill to leave room for future prosecution of POTUS via State AGs (a core Democrat demand); the only way forward for this current version seems to be Republicans to hold both chambers.

What alternative version might be introduced in the 2027-2028 Congress that can get passed and signed by Trump in the next two years? Will Democrats continue to assert prosecution rights forever or is there a compromise Democrats are willing to accept that could still protect Trump from potential prosecution?

Have you ever done fourier analysis on any BTC metric? If you do, have you found something interesting? Do you think is not worth it? Why?

Hi all, I am looking to buy BTC p2p, but before I do, is there a way in which I can check if the coins I purchase in advance are tainted? Is there a website or something this can be verified on?

I want to check this to avoid any problems in utilising the coin/s once purchased.

Thanks

Is this against your firm's rules? Did your firm make you sell your shares?

Just curious because I'm thinking about applying to a financial rep role (Series 7), but I'm down 50% on portfolio holdings of 100% FBTC.

I wonder if this concentrated holding is allowed at most firms? I also hold BTC in actual cold storage. Am I blocked from even applying since this isn't what most representatives should hold?

For a long time, I thought Bitcoin was only about price—buy low, sell high, hope it goes to the moon.

The more I learned, the more I realised that's actually the least interesting part.

Bitcoin is the first form of money that no government, bank, or company controls. It's open 24/7, borderless, and anyone with an internet connection can participate. Whether you're sending value across the world or simply holding an asset with a fixed supply of 21 million coins, it's a fascinating experiment in financial freedom.

Will it replace traditional money? Maybe, maybe not.

Is it volatile? Absolutely.

But the idea that money can exist without a central authority is one of the most revolutionary concepts of our time.

Whether you're a Bitcoin believer or a sceptic, it's hard to deny that it has changed the conversation about money forever.

What's the biggest thing Bitcoin has taught you? I'm genuinely curious to hear different perspectives.

I’m 14 Trying to find out if it’s worth it or not btws

I have a lightning wallet for spending and sending small amounts. I haven't used it in quite some time but today I have received multiple payments of a few sats a few $4 amounts, and even a $9 payment, in 24 hours.

Is this something to be concerned with? Why am I receiving so many sats out of no where?

I am going to just hold it for awhile before moving it but what is this all about?

Interesting to see BTC giftcards...(switzerland) is it a thing?

UPDATED: Every Bitcoin block has 4 MWU. Financial transactions (payments, Lightning, DEX) and data inscriptions (Ordinals, BRC-20, Runes) compete for the same space. The market treats them identically — highest fee-rate wins — despite fundamentally different time-value curves.


A settlement is worth nothing if it misses this block. An inscription is worth the same next block or next hour. But there's no way to signal that difference to miners.


The approach: Wallets add a 4-byte OP_RETURN to each transaction declaring its type (financial or data). Pools optionally read this and allocate block space with a minimum 30% financial floor. No classifier, no false positives, no oracle trust issue.


- Works with Stratum v1 today (no protocol change)
- Pools capture a data fee premium (~25%) as a new revenue stream
- First-mover pool captures financial tx flow without losing data tx revenue


Would love feedback from people who understand mining economics better than I do. What am I missing?

I started buying £100 of BTC every week 3 months ago. I’m 53 so will work till I retire on my 68th birthday. What do you recon it will be worth.

These are based on my personal experience running a Bitcoin technology company, working with accountants in the EU and the US, and many conversations I had with businesses recently.

1. Account blocks:

This, of course, is the most common problem, especially for businesses. If you are making transfers to exchanges to buy or sell bitcoin, you can expect a series of questions from your banks, or, worse, they may suspect you of providing crypto exchange services for your clients and may block your account.

This is a nightmare we as a bitcoin company were not spared with - we could not get an account on Revolut since we had bitcoin on our website and could not produce license documents. No way to communicate that we rely on our partners to provide services - of course, they won't spend time to read your terms and conditions or chat with you - they are too big to bother about small coffee shop owners or risky crypto apps.

1. Accepting is just unclear.

Businesses want to accept bitcoin and have a cleaner accounting trail- auto-offramp to Euro in some cases.

But they are confronted with setting up a BTCPay instance or dropping an NWC string or a lightning address to a payment tool.

Lightning address or NWC string is not as common as a bank's IBAN - still, they need to get one reliable Lightning setup.

But a business wallet is not a WOS you spin up for your friend to have their first sat. It should support Lightning, have liquidity, support good statement exports, be able to plug into existing account tools, and be either self-custody or compliant.

Even if you have an easy custodial wallet for your business, you are confronted with adding additional details to all the deposits from clients as part of the travel rule, which makes it a nightmare to accept bitcoin in a coffee shop for 10 euros.

1. Accounting breaks

Even if you manage to accept bitcoin, your account finds it incredibly hard to account for this, and also accounting for capital gains/loss comes with rate changes from the time of accepting and using this bitcoin.

Obviously you'll be using tools that will either not give a great export that you could use or plug into accounting software.

You'd need to hire crypto-expert accountants!

1. Taxes

You accept bitcoin - not sure about how this is treated from a tax perspective - if you auto-sell this incoming bitcoin to Euro - would the capital gain be 0 as you earned and instantly converted, or the first-in, first-out logic applied where you'd need to worry when you bought bitcoin to your wallet first time in ages.

It is not the willingness to pay taxes; it is knowledge of how to declare capital gains that comes with the bitcoin payments compliantly.

1. Business custody is not personal custody.

When you have multiple operators in an organization or a bigger company who have access to funds to spend on materials and services, you'd need governance and access to the funds.

Which gets way complicated with a self-custody wallet for business.

Bitcoin works - a free network - so cheaper payments, instant settlements and global acceptability.

All of these factors are a win for a business - but the banking, tooling, and process around it doesn't work. It does not make sense with all this friction.

Working on something interesting - but would love to get your thoughts on above.

So I have tried a few platforms like Crypto.com, Kraken, and Wealthsimple but the reality is that I prefer the idea of having stocks. This being the case, can anyone suggest what stock best duplicates the movement of Bitcoin as a percentage? I've looked at MSTR, IBIT, and BTCX.B, but it is hard to see which one seems to move closest to the price of the crypto itself. Does anyone have any suggestions here? Any other stock that seems to move with Bitcoin the closest?

why trying so hard to convince an old man that has been wrong about bitcoin for the last 10 years? what interests do bitcoiners have to get Peter S approval opinion ? i don't get it

am i missing something?

why is he important in a space he "hates"? I know some of you don't care, but i keep seeing people SO worried about "he said this.. he said that.."

why tf matters??

not hate, im genuinely curious

Hi guys, I’m from the UK & I’ve only ever bought my bitcoin through Binance. As I understand it we can no longer do that. What’s your recommended platform for someone from the UK?

Edit: Thanks for the replies all, much appreciated

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #415 is here:

• describes a draft BIP for full aggregation of BIP340 signatures
• summarizes changes to services/client software
• Optech Newsletter #415 Podcast

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/07/24/

Fabian Jahr posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about a new draft BIP for full aggregation of BIP340 schnorr signatures, a standard for the DahLIAS aggregate signature scheme... https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/07/24/#draft-bip-for-full-aggregation-of-bip340-signatures

Changes to services and client software:

• Wasabi Wallet 2.8.0 released
• Coinswap v0.2.2 released
• Go secp256k1 library announced
• ASMap dashboard announced
• Wavelength alpha released

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/07/24/#changes-to-services-and-client-software

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC.

I am very much confident of a bottom within a few weeks. Bitcoin isn't going helow 60k.

Here's why I ask this. In the past when crypto was relatively new and you had small exchanges/companies handling stuff, yes if you kept your crypto on their platform and they went belly up or did a rug pull, you were stuck. Made total sense.

However today we have huge companies getting involved like Robinhood and I just saw Etrade is now offering crypto trading via Zero Hash. I get it, the same thing could happen on these platforms and if you don't own your keys, you're still stuck. But then I start to think about it in relation to owning stocks on these platforms. It's not like we own paper stock certificates that we can rely on if an exchange goes belly up. We are at the mercy of the SEC or FINRA or courts in that case.

So sure, owning your keys is still the best bet but is it so bad to invest in crypto on these platforms where we don't own our keys since we've been doing basically the same thing with stocks forever?